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In CT texture analysis, precontrast and delayed-phase images of 18 adrenal gland tumors, which could be applied for ComBat harmonization were used, and 93 radiomic features (18 first-order and 75 second-order statistics) were extracted. Then, ComBat harmonization was applied to compensate for the batch effect created by the different CT protocols. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for each significant feature was used to evaluate the diagnostic performance of CT texture analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Among the conventional features, PHEO showed significantly higher mean and maximum precontrast HU values than ACC (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05). Eight second-order features on the precontrast images showed significant differences between the adrenal gland tumors (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05). However, none of them were significantly different between AA and PHEO, or between precontrast images and delayed-phase images. This result indicates that ACC exhibited more heterogeneous and complex textures and more variable intensities with lower gray-level values than AA and PHEO. The correlation, maximal correlation coefficient, and gray level non-uniformity normalized were significantly different between AA and ACC, and between ACC and PHEO. These features showed high AUCs in discriminating ACC and PHEO, which were comparable or higher than the precontrast mean and maximum HU (AUC = 0.865 and 0.860, respectively).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Canine primary adrenal gland tumor differentiation can be achieved with CT texture analysis on precontrast images and may have a potential role in clinical decision-making. 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